Ucsd thesis defense

In 1993, Norman left UCSD to join Apple Computer , initially as an Apple Fellow as a User Experience Architect (the first use of the phrase " User Experience " in a job title [11] [12] [ citation needed ] ), and then as the Vice President of the Advanced Technology Group . He later worked for Hewlett-Packard before joining with Jakob Nielsen to form the Nielsen Norman Group in 1998. He returned to academia as a professor of computer science at Northwestern University , where he was co-director of the Segal Design Institute until 2010. In 2014, he returned to UCSD to become director of the newly established The Design Lab housed at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology .